OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by llambda » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by NelsonMinar » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

Does it work? I tried to do some OAuth in Python a couple of years back and it was a total disaster; four competing libraries, none of which worked. But that was a long time ago and I don't think this Rauth library even existed when I last looked.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by peter_l_downs » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

Just in case anyone is confused, this is a library for client-side OAuth. That said, it's great for quick test scripts — it made my life a lot easier when I was working on a provider implementation.

EDIT: Although their README only shows an OAuth1 example, check out https://github.com/litl/rauth/blob/master/examples/github-cl... for an example of using it with an OAuth2 provider.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by zalew » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

to be honest I am currently lost on the state of oauth in python, has sth changed since this post http://pydanny.com/the-sorry-state-of-python-oauth-providers...? as OP is a client lib, could somebody with practical experience tell me what's the current best library for setting up an oauth provider? bonus question: should I bother with 2.0 or stick to 1.0 (3rd party apps and mobile) http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... ?

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by llambda » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #2

Does it work? I tried to do some OAuth in Python a couple of years back and it was a total disaster; four competing libraries, none of which worked. But that was a long time ago and I don't think this Rauth library even existed when I last looked.

Maybe you should try it?

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by IheartApplesDix » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

peter_l_downs wrote: post #3

Just in case anyone is confused, this is a library for client-side OAuth. That said, it's great for quick test scripts — it made my life a lot easier when I was working on a provider implementation. EDIT: Although their README only shows an OAuth1 example, check out https://github.com/litl/rauth/blob/master/examples/github-cl... for an example of using it with an OAuth2 provider.

So I guess that's the open part.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by sandyarmstrong » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #2

Does it work? I tried to do some OAuth in Python a couple of years back and it was a total disaster; four competing libraries, none of which worked. But that was a long time ago and I don't think this Rauth library even existed when I last looked.

Yes.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by peter_l_downs » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

zalew wrote: post #4

to be honest I am currently lost on the state of oauth in python, has sth changed since this post http://pydanny.com/the-sorry-state-of-python-oauth-providers... ? as OP is a client lib, could somebody with practical experience tell me what's the current best library for setting up an oauth provider? bonus question: should I bother with 2.0 or stick to 1.0 (3rd party apps and mobile) http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oau…

Not much has changed. I'm currently working to open source an implementation I worked on that's compliant with the finalized version of the spec. The most up-to-date implementation I've seen in the open is https://github.com/hiidef/oauth2app, which implements draft 16.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by jrussbowman » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:25 PM UTC

If you're looking for a more full stack framework in python, tornado has had support for oauth since it's release. It's implementation does rely on the tornado ioloop though, so it's not something you can easily just pull and use elsewhere.

Re: OAuth for Python made easy

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Post by dtwwtd » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 6:31 PM UTC

jrussbowman wrote: post #9

If you're looking for a more full stack framework in python, tornado has had support for oauth since it's release. It's implementation does rely on the tornado ioloop though, so it's not something you can easily just pull and use elsewhere.

It's really easy to use too. I recently extended the base implementation for a service that it didn't support and it took me very little time.